Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry where he works says ...

This vintage Japanese TV lighter made by Waco around 1960 was in poor condition with broken and missing parts. Restoration was a challenge, with the chrome heavily pitted, but a polishing ...

I ask the proprietor of Hitachiya, a Japanese cookware store in Torrance. I couldn’t imagine how such a crude metal spike could possibly be used in the kitchen. “For nailing an eel to a board.” ...

This different percentage makes carbon steel less brittle, which allows it to be used in thinner configurations for lighter cookware. For example, the Merten & Storck carbon steel skillet (Food ...

OSHU, Japan--Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry where ...

Japan is home to more than 32,000 ramen shops, many of them packed, with lines snaking out the door. What has become the country's unofficial national dish — defined as a wheat noodle soup ...

A handsome new cast-iron skillet designed and made in Japan by Vermicular has a great deal going for it. It’s lighter than typical cast-iron cookware and has a special kind of enamel coating ...

The 80-year-old Japanese cookware brand Vermicular has a rabid following for its multicooker pot, and its new, feather-light frying pans live up to the hype. We tested Vermicular's deep, enameled ...

By HIRO KOMAE OSHU, Japan (AP) — Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172 ...

Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry where he works says ...